AUSWERFER FÜR STRICKMASCHINEN

摘要

A picker having a needle raising picker means (A) and a needle lowering picker means (B) which are used to increase and decrease stitches when a heel portion and a toe portion of a sock are knitted. When a longer butt (2a) of a knitting needle (2) at a knitting level impinges upon a free end portion (17a or 18a) of a needle raising picker member (17 or 18) as the cylinder of the knitting machine is turned reciprocatingly at the starting of the knitting of a heel portion or a toe portion, the needle raising picker member (17 or 18) is turned horizontally, and a tail end portion (17b or 18b) thereof is guided by an inclined guide slot (20a or 20b) and lowered. Consequently, a front end portion (17a or 18a) of the needle raising picker member moves up reversely to the tail end portion thereof to lift the knitting needle (2) from the upper side of a stitch cam (9a or 9b) to a position above a center cam (8) and move the knitting needle to a non-knitting level, whereby the number of stitches is reduced. In order to increase the number stitches, the longer butt (2a) of the knitting needle at a non-knitting level presses a front end (25a) of a needle lowering picker member (25), which is guided by an inclined cam portion (21a1 or 21a2) of a cam guide member (21a) and lowered to return the knitting needle to a knitting level.